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Piceoerpeton willwoodense

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela

Taxonomy
Piceoerpeton willwoodensis was named by Meszoely (1967). Its type specimen is YPM (PU) 18021, a set of vertebrae (trunk vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Piceoerpeton willwoodense type locality, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Willwood Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Piceoerpeton.

It was corrected as Piceoerpeton willwoodense by Naylor and Krause (1981), Estes (1981) and Gardner (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1967Piceoerpeton willwoodensis Meszoely p. 346
1981Piceoerpeton willwoodense Estes
1981Piceoerpeton willwoodense Naylor and Krause p. 508
2012Piceoerpeton willwoodense Gardner

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Lissamphibia()
—Batrachia(Macartney 1802)
—Caudata(Scopoli 1777)
familyUrodela()
suborderAmbystomatoidea
familyScapherpetontidae()
genusPiceoerpeton
specieswillwoodense()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Piceoerpeton willwoodense Meszoely 1967
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